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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BUACHAILLE BRÈIGE Buachaille Bréige
Buachaille Bréige
Buachaille Bréige
Mr. John Grant
Mr. John McDougall
Mr. John Morgan
105 A considerable heath clad hill, this name is supposed to be derived from a Man Shaped Currock of Stones which formerly occupied its summit, and served to scare away the Eagles while as yet these Moors were Sheep Pastures hence the meaning of the name in Gaelic; the Scarecrow Herdsman or rather Scare-eagle Herdsman
ALLT NA DUIBHRE Allt na Duibhre
Allt na Duibhre
Allt na Duibhre
Mr. John Grant
Mr. John McDougall
Mr. John Morgan
105 A Small Stream rising near Geal Charn and flowing into Allt na Bronn. this name means in English the Stream of the Gloom or Shadow

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Crathie and Braemar -- Aberdeenshire

BUACHAILLE BRÈIGE
As "Beul na Creige" see McLeod & Dewar's Gaelic Dictionary
Both in Scotch and Irish Gaelic I always heard it pronounced "Buachaille Bréige"
This is correct GM

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